First Light – allsky1pi new lens
This is the First Light image from the new wider angle lens for the allsky1pi camera system. The old lens came along with the ASI ZWO120MC camera and was a…
Solar M3.9 Flare 2021May07 19:10 UTC
The data closeup from the SCGO Radiojove radio telescope system for the M3.9 class flare from active region 2822 just coming onto the sun on 2021 May 07. The spaceweatherlive…
Solar Flare C8.6 20210422-2006UTC
Its Solar Flare Season again! This note came from the Radiojove email list from John Avellone, Shenandoah Valley Virginia/West Virginia): “More solar activity @ 20MHz. Attached chart for 200330 –…
SCGO renos and repairs part 2
Most rolloff roof observatory designs have a “flippy board” feature that flips up before rolling the roof off. This allows for clearance of any instruments you may have inside, and…
SCGO renos and repairs
The Starlight Cascade Gardens and Observatories 1st rolloff roof observatory was built in 2003. It is an 8×10 metal shed from Canadian Tire that was repurposed. The external rails/outriggers are…
Supersid update
The SuperSID radio telescope system has had some coding updates. As of yesterday: The supersidpi data logger copies its data every hour to the file server every hour the file…
Radiojove issue
Yes.. another astronomy post… well.. it just snowed again yesterday and went down to -7C this morning.. so gardening season is not quite here yet. So.. onto RadioAstronomy! On sunday…
SupersidPi now connected to supersid receiver
Great! The experimental SuperSIDPi was connected to the SuperSID receiver yesterday morning and is now data logging real live data. The data file is being saved to the pi and…
supersid pi project failure 2020Feb Notes
These are the notes we made during another attempt at replacing the windows netbook running supersid v1.2.2 with a raspberry pi project. This would hopefully use less power (up to…
SuperSID Raspberry Pi SUCCESS!
After the last failure of trying to get python data logging code onto a Raspberry Pi 3B and failing with the latest Raspbian Buster OS (20210111), we decided to try…
Raspberry Pi SuperSID
Here we go again.. another attempt at building a SuperSID Monitor and data logger on a Raspberry Pi computer. Current running on a netbook with Windows 7, the netbook is…
Mars and Uranus 2021Feb03
We successfully imaged the planet Uranus back on 2021Jan24. At that time, an out of focus image helped to identify the planet showing a greenish cast. The most recent image…
ISS 2021feb06
The International Space Station passed over our location last night.. a low pass, peaking at 24 deg altitude. The issue was twilight… it was not dark enough to use a…
Mercury 2021 Jan 23
This is an image of Mercury, at its Greatest Eastern Elongation on 2021 January 23rd, looking West Southwest. At the time this image was taken, Mercury had a magnitude of…